Tags archives: Big Data

Knotch, which describes itself as a "discovery platform for opinions and ideas," has raised a $1.5 million seed funding round, according to TechCrunch, with participation from Lars Rasmussen (co-founder of Google Maps), and Bebo co-founders Michael a[...]

Last week, Forbes ran a profile of Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir and seriously spazzed-out individual. The piece was enlightening for its revelations on Palantir's long-fingered influence, as well as a tad disturbing.
Palantir is the big-data startup[...]

Econsultancy, which previously seemed to hit every stereotype of a bubbly, nebulous digital marketing agency, has done some actual analytics and come up with the precise effectiveness of over 287 e-mail subject-line keywords across a sample of 2.2 bi[...]

The venture capital game is not all IPOs and sunshine, statistically or emotionally, as our friend Fred Wilson recently explained. The majority of VC funds would not beat an indexed market portfolio, and according to a New York Times article this pas[...]

All things equal, I'll take a nice food-delivery startup over a big-data enterprise company, because I'm a blogger, and I hate writing about software.
But from a pure business perspective, one could argue that the only companies with billion-dolla[...]

Google has acquired Waze -- a social-mapping-location-data company -- for between $1 billion and $1.3 billion, according to TechCrunch. For the trigger-happy wonks at TechCrunch, VentureBeat and every other tech blog, the acquisition puts an end to m[...]

Earlier this week, Zynga slashed over 520 jobs in its New York City offices, and now, a former 'Zyngite' is hosting an AMA on Reddit, according to Valleywag. Not surprisingly, the gossip is juicy.
First, the positives: the anonymous Redditer notes t[...]

Writing in the MIT Technology Review, Kenneth Cukier of The Economist and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of Oxford University explore the 'dark side' of big data, through the lens of former U.S. secretary of defense Robert McNamara.
McNamara was Harvard[...]

MuleSoft -- which manages APIs and smooths the integration of data and applications -- has raised $37 million in a funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Salesforce, Lightspeed Venture Partners and others, accordi[...]

Tealium -- a tag management company -- has raised a $15.6 million Series C round led by Tenaya Capital, with participation from Battery Ventures and Presidio Ventures, according to TechCrunch.
Tealium captures clean data streams for enterprise mar[...]

ElectNext, providing a database on politicians and policy numbers, has raised $1.3 million in a seed round led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures in addition to Liberty City Ventures, Comcast Ventures the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and others, [...]

According to VentureBeat, Visual.ly -- focused on data visualizations and infographics -- has raised a $2 million funding round, from investors including 500 Startups and Giza Ventures Capital.
The company's platform features a community of over 5[...]